Bug#797650: libwx-perl: pulls in lots of development headers and documentation

[Dominique Dumont]

On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:20:48 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> libwx-perl depends on libalien-wxwidgets-perl, which in turn depends on
> libwxgtk3.0-dev and from there a bunch of X11-related development
> headers and documentation.
> 
> This means installing e.g. needrestart-session turns the machine into a
> development machine.
> 
> I believe development headers should be needed only during build.

I faced a similar problem with Alien::SDL and ended up creating 2 packages: 
libalien-sdl-dev-perl  and libalien-sdl-perl 

See https://sources.debian.net/src/libalien-sdl-perl/1.446-2/debian/control/
for details

Hope this helps


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